Ash just sent me this picture of an eDivvy that spent some time in the lake.
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@Face I have a single left sram 11s ergo hood with your name on it.
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My man!
Let’s go ride sometime and I’ll grab it from ya.
They fixed my extra cycle. I think 75 or 80 bucks
Dam u old
33 here. I’m literally the youngest person I know
Is it just me or do they sell belts as basically bulletproof and maintenance free? And then I’m finding out you are supposed to have an app on your phone to check the hz of your belt?
Wait, what’s that now?
Yeah, tuning app. Hold your phone next to the belt while tapping it with a screwdriver handle, or whatever.
Don’t worry, you’re going to break parts regardless.
kinking the belt even a little bit will destroy it, and undertensioning it will expedite that
overtensioning it at all will roast the bearings in your freehub+BB, and most of these nerds are using a rohloff or pinion drive that’s sensitive to only that kind of abuse
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If only there was something that could take some lateral deflection and had a readily available automatic tensioner
At the end of the video, the Priority guy suggests carefully winding a spare belt for touring. Seems dangerous!
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Aren’t there motorcycles using belt drives? How are they managing to not be burly enough for bicycle use?
They’re smaller? Not usually messed around with by the user. Smoother power transmission?
I think it’s about the people servicing them more than the application
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Drive belts are mostly a thing on Harleys. You do have to set the tension on them but you have to do the same thing with drive chains on motorcycles. I think in general the belts aren’t falling off like they might on a bicycle, and also they are likely built quite a bit burlier, even just relative to the application.
Looks like I jinxed myself. This thing blew off the rim in the middle of the night. Scared the hell out of me.
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People on nextdoor all “Gunshots or Rusty?”
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For what it is worth, we have a shit ton of machines here at work that have timing belt. Many of them start and stop very hard. So my guess would be the size of the belt itself. Because he’s timing belt to take a freaking meeting here at work. And keep going.
This is something I found out at work. Belts do not like lateral pressure. Most of the knuckleheads here at work will try to stretch the bell to get on it and they do not like that either. Just listen to a damn motor and slide it over to get the new belt on. But most of these knuckleheads try to slide it on with a screwdriver. That’s about the last for a long
